Chemical Week

Chemical Week, Vol.162, No.4 Entire volume, number list

ISSN: 0009-272X (Print)

In this Issue (54 articles)

5 - 5	Viewpoint - Railroad blues Hunter D
9 - 9	Pharmaceuticals - Glaxo-SKB merger back on Hume C
9 - 9	Legal - Delta and Pine Land sues Monsanto for $1 billion [Anonymous]
12 - 12	PET - Mitsubishi to boost US films capacity Westervelt R
12 - 12	Fertilizers - Agrium acquires Unocal's nitrogen operations Westervelt R
12 - 12	Companies - Solutia changes reporting segments Westervelt R
12 - 12	Divestments - ChemFirst sells steel operations Westervelt R
13 - 13	Engineering plastics - Producers press for a polycarbonate increase Seewald N
13 - 13	Electronic chemicals - R&H buys strippers stake, takes control of Rodel Moore SK
14 - 14	Thermosets - BASF to acquire PMC's urethanes Adams J
14 - 14	Campaign 2000 - Green groups target Bush [Anonymous]
14 - 14	Superabsorbents - FTC probes BASF's Chemdal buy Westervelt R
14 - 14	Congress - Election politics stall environment proposals Franz N
16 - 16	M&A - AHP seeks a new pharmaceutical match Moore SK
16 - 16	Ag Biotech - EPA issues Bt corn planting restrictions Sissell K
17 - 17	CW Transportation Conference - Shippers rail against service hassles Westervelt R
18 - 18	Sodium bicarbonate - Ameralia project gets approval [Anonymous]
18 - 18	Forecast - Canadian firms upbeat on prospects for 2000 Wood A
19 - 19	Intermediates - Millennium to market DuPont's merchant vinyl acetate monomer Terry L
21 - 21	South Africa - AECI completes five divestments Young I
21 - 21	Industrial gases - Brussels puts tough conditions on BOC takeover plan Alperowicz N
22 - 22	Fine chemicals - Degussa-Huls takes over Asta-Medica's actives Hume C
22 - 22	Companies - BASF restructures pharmaceuticals; Seeks Agchems acquisition Alperowicz N
22 - 22	Specialities - Masterbatch management buyout Young I
24 - 24	Australia - ICI soils oleochemicals unit to management group [Anonymous]
24 - 24	Inorganics - Millennium buys zirconia business from Hanwha Chemical Young I
25 - 25	Lyondell-Bayer PO-SM may switch to Antwerp [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Tecnimont completes PP plant in Chile [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Indonesia approves Kansai Paints project [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Indian VAM maker plans capacity expansion [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Roche to build vitamin premix unit in South Africa [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Rhodia increases capacity for methyl chlorosilanes [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Elenac awards cracker contract to Linde [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Egyptian firm nears styrenics process selection [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Ajinomoto raises lysine production worldwide [Anonymous]
25 - 25	Kvaerner supplies phosgene generator to BorsodChem [Anonymous]
27 - 29	Soaps & detergents - Rising costs burst soapers' bubbles Walsh K, Hume C
30 - 34	Surfactants suppliers turn up the heat - Intermediates pricing warms up Schmitt B, Hume C
34 - 35	Phosphates' slow build - Fending off zeolites' challenge [Anonymous]
36 - 36	Japan's washday blues - Demand falls, but prices stay firm Mollet A
39 - 39	Laboratory software - Keeping up with the robots Mullin R
41 - 41	Flame retardants - Bromine producers stoke up prices Walsh K
41 - 41	Food preservatives - US Salt buys propionates unit Schmitt B
42 - 42	Aromatics - PTA slump hurts Asian P-xylene Adams J
42 - 42	Styrene - Strong demand lifts price hopes Terry L
46 - 46	Methanol - Capacity wave rolls in from overseas Adams J
48 - 48	Price commentary [Anonymous]
50 - 50	Catalysts - Putting polar monomers in PE Moore SK
50 - 50	Superfund - Green groups press for taxes Franz N
51 - 52	Regulation - FQPA pesticide reviews spark industry concerns Franz N
53 - 53	Companies - An altered state for Grace Walsh K
58 - 58	E-commerce - Oil firms set up purchasing sites Fuller J
58 - 58	Logistics - Brenntag buys Neuber Fuller J
59 - 86	Soaps & detergents directory [Anonymous]